| Revolution in the Service of the Marvelous: Surrealist Contributions to the Critique of Miserabilism Contributor(s): Rosemont, Franklin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0882863509 ISBN-13: 9780882863504 Publisher: Charles Kerr OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2004 Annotation: 20 essays by one of contemporary surrealism's major poets and theorists, Chicago Surrealist Group co-founder Franklin Rosemont. These essays focus on the ways in which surrealist perspectives have continued to evolve and expand since the movement's worldwide resurgence in the 1960s. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated collection includes prefaces to international surrealist exhibitions and texts concerning wilderness, the politics of humor, the black radical tradition, and the critique of whiteness - documenting key developments in surrealism's collective evolution. Other essays explore the work of individual poets, paints, musicians and dancers whose creative activity exemplifies the movement's ongoing transformative project. Rosemont remarks in his Introduction: "As a book about surrealism, this is also inevitably a book about freedom, desire, surprise, love, play, humor, black music, painting, collage, dance, film, ecology, subversion, revolt and revolution. Above all it is concerned with the practice of poetry: poetry as audacity and insubordination, a source and method of knowledge, a model for a better society, an adventure and experience that makes all the difference in the world." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Social Science |
| LCCN: 78314685 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 152 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Cultural Writing. Essays. REVOLUTION IN THE SERVICE OF THE MARVELOUS contains twenty essays by one of contemporary surrealism's major poets and theorists, Chicago Surrealist Group co-founder Franklin Rosemont. These essays focus on ways in which surrealist perspectiveshave continued to evolve and expand since the movement's worldwide resurgence in the 1960s. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated collection includes prefaces to international surrealist exhibitions and texts concerning wilderness, the politics of humor, the black radical tradition, and the critique of whiteness--documenting key developments in surrealism's collective evolution. Other essays explore the work of individual poets, painters, musicians and dancers whose creative activity exemplifies the movement's ongoing transformative project. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosemont, Franklin: - Franklin Rosemont was born on October 2, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and mother, Sally, a jazz musician. He edited and wrote an introduction for What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings of Andre Breton, and edited Rebel Worker, Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DIL PICKLE and Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim. With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited THE FORECAST IS HOT!. His work has been deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a forward for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth) and of the radical labor movement in America, for instance, writing a biography of Joe Hill. He died on April 12, 2009, in Chicago. |